Publication
Title
Probing heavy Majorana neutrinos and the Weinberg operator through vector boson fusion processes in proton-proton collisions at √s=13 TeV
Author
Institution/Organisation
CMS Collaboration
Abstract
The first search exploiting the vector boson fusion process to probe heavy Majorana neutrinos and the Weinberg operator at the LHC is presented. The search is performed in the same-sign dimuon final state using a proton-proton collision dataset recorded at root s = 13 TeV, collected with the CMS detector and corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 138 fb(-1). The results are found to agree with the predictions of the standard model. For heavy Majorana neutrinos, constraints on the squared mixing element between the muon and the heavy neutrino are derived in the heavy neutrino mass range 50 GeV-25 TeV; for masses above 650 GeV these are the most stringent constraints from searches at the LHC to date. A first test of the Weinberg operator at colliders provides an observed upper limit at 95% confidence level on the effective mu mu Majorana neutrino mass of 10.8 GeV.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Physical review letters. - New York, N.Y., 1958, currens
Publication
New York, N.Y. : American Physical Society , 2023
ISSN
0031-9007 [print]
1079-7114 [online]
DOI
10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.131.011803
Volume/pages
131 :1 (2023) , p. 1-21
Article Reference
011803
ISI
001060186700001
Medium
E-only publicatie
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Research group
Project info
The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
The CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Last edited 25.04.2024
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